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Presently, after this was at an end, my mother died, and I was left at liberty to mourn her loss awhile.
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The unity of God preserves a unity in men--that is, a perpetual sympathy between man and man--which sympathy we must be subject to, if not in our joys, yet in our griefs.
Elizabeth Barrett Browningverified·The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 1 (ed. Frederic G. Kenyon)·January 23, 1837
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If sorrow in its reaction makes us think of our friends, let my name come among the list of yours to you, and with it let the thought come that I am not the coldest and least sincere.
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There is only one event in my life which never loses its bitterness; which comes back on me like a retreating wave, going and coming again, which was and is my grief--I never had but one brother who loved and comprehended me.
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Brothers and sisters we were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers.
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A gloomy sensation of agonising, everlasting solitude and remoteness, took conscious form in his soul.
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When I saw them embracing each other, and heard their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight.
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The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.
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At death our friends and relations either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart further from us and are forgotten.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·December 24, 1850
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
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Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again, such as I can fearlessly say there never was before.
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a man should, at the first approaches, favour their grief and express some approbation of their sorrow
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these things occurring daily and being importunate make the mind little, and narrow, and unsocial, and harsh, and timid, so that, being besieged and taken in hand by grief, it can no longer laugh, and shuns daylight, and avoids society
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The powers and the ground of friendship is a mystery; but, looking back, I can discern that, in part, we loved the thing he was, for some shadow of what he was to be.
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Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends.
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Many friendships are formed by a community of sensual pleasures: all these will be cut off.
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Even in the same family the gap is not so great; the wound closes up sooner than we should expect.